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单词 grey groat
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grey groat
grey groat n. Obsolete a thing of little or no value; chiefly in emphatic negative expressions; cf. groat n. 2c, brass farthing n. at brass n. Compounds 3.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Divv I knew hym, not worth a good grey grote.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. ii. 146/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Of which portion poore saint Peter did neuer heare, of so much as one graie grote.
c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta iv. iv I'll not leave him worth a grey groat.
1664 J. Wilson Cheats v. v. 79 I can assure you her Grandfather left her not so much as a grey Groat.
1720 T. Gordon Craftsmen 8 He demanded not a grey Groat of them.
1820 W. Scott Abbot I. iv. 90 I would have been his caution for a grey groat against salt water or fresh.
1894 Sc. Notes & Queries Mar. 151/1 Gang to the tree on yonder brae—The leafless aik wi' branches grey;—Aneath its stem Dig deep, till four grey groats ye see.
1923 E. Hamilton Old Days & New xix. 302 Little Jock Graeme..Doesn't care a grey groat if his pony is lame.
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